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Q: What is considered a right lateral?

Answer:
when the block on the opposite side of the viewer moves to the right

Q: What type of fault is the San Andreas Fault?

Answer:
right lateral strike-slip

Q: Why do folds form?

Answer:
form when rocks bend instead of break

Q: What is an anticline fold?

Answer:
a fold that looks like an arch (or a frowny face)

, Geology 100 - Final Exam Questions and Answers with Verified
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Q: What is a syncline fold?

Answer:
a fold that opens upward like a trough (U-shape or smiley)

Q: The ___ rocks are located in the middle of an anticline fold.

Answer:
oldest

Q: The ___ rocks are located in the middle of a syncline fold.

Answer:
youngest

Q: What process creates all three types of rocks?

Answer:
(igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary) orogenesis

, Geology 100 - Final Exam Questions and Answers with Verified
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Q: What is orogenesis?

Answer:
The process of mountain building

Q: What is James Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism?

Answer:
"the present is the key to the past"

Q: What are the two methods to date geologic materials?

Answer:
relative and absolute

Q: What is the principle of original horizontality?

Answer:
layers form flat, tilting occurs after deposition

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